. The Street railway journal . & Proviso of forty-five miles, the OgdenvStreet Railway of fourteen miles and the Chicago & Jeffer-son Urban Railway of eight miles. Of these roads 34miles are cable, 215 electric and 14 horse. It will be seen at a glance that the methods of repairsand maintenance of the rolling stock of such a road pre-sent a very interesting study. Machinery and tools must of both operation and maintenance is materially the changes made from the old system of mulepower to the more modern method of propulsion, thenumber of car houses required for the proper h
. The Street railway journal . & Proviso of forty-five miles, the OgdenvStreet Railway of fourteen miles and the Chicago & Jeffer-son Urban Railway of eight miles. Of these roads 34miles are cable, 215 electric and 14 horse. It will be seen at a glance that the methods of repairsand maintenance of the rolling stock of such a road pre-sent a very interesting study. Machinery and tools must of both operation and maintenance is materially the changes made from the old system of mulepower to the more modern method of propulsion, thenumber of car houses required for the proper handling ofthe rolling stock has been reduced, the vacated barns be-ing used simply for storage. From the fact that many lines are still being operated ApriIv, 1896.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 225 by horses and furthermore that the electric lines have beenin operation scarcely nine months, the system of repairsand maintenance is not as perfect as the management hopesto have it eventually. As the changes are perfected and. FIG. 2.—MACHINE SHOP. electricity substituted throughout, implements now usedfor the electrical work will be replaced by others and theinternal arrangement of buildings will be changed to pro-vide better facilities for the hand-ling of the new equipment. Thecar shops of the West ChicagoStreet Railwaj Company are ex-clusively employed for the repairsto car bodies and trucks, renewalsof wheels and axles and machinerywork entailed by such repairs, themanufacturing and repairing of thevarious parts of the grip mechan-isms, the rewinding of armaturesand fields, rebuilding of commuta-tors, and the necessary power sta-tion repairs, such as require ma-chine work. A very large amountof work for the construction de-partments has been turned outduring the past year and a numberof new cars built for various pur-poses. The car .shops are located atFortieth Street and Ave-nue, extending over three blocks ofterritory and comprise four brickbuildings, the loop ,
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